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Pivotal Tracker went down without notice for all users today at 10:50 US Pacific time, for approximately half hour. This happened during a planned release to upgrade our production version of Solr (our search server) , as well as move our Solr-based search service to new hosts, for improved performance as well as improved search functionality.

We are happy to announce the availability of Usersnap, the #1 screenshot tool for web development as a new third party add-on to Pivotal Tracker. Get annotated screenshots of the current browser content, directly delivered to Tracker.

Usersnap helps you to communicate effectively about issues and share feedback between developers, customers and quality assurance engineers.

If you’ve been seeing a lot of “Aw, Snap!” crashes while using Tracker in Chrome, you’re not alone. An issue seems to have been introduced in Chrome 28 and several web apps and sites have been affected by it.

We’ve reported the problem to Google, (and they merged our report into this issue) but since they haven’t been able to fix it yet, the best way we can think of to assist them, is to ask your help.

The new Pivotal Tracker developer API (V5) is now open to everyone! It’s completely new, all-JSON, much more comprehensive, and full of goodies. Keep reading for highlights and an example to get started.

The recently rewritten Tracker application has been running against this new API since earlier in the year, and some of you may have already started developing against it as part of the private beta.